President Obama: . . . And if we're not making investments in education and basic research, which is not something that the private sector is doing at a sufficient pace right now and has never done, then we will lose the (inaudible) in things like clean energy technology.

So according to President Obama, the private sector has never made investments in education and basic research. This is the view of a man with a DNA-level hostility to the private sector. It is also one of the most brazenly stupid and dishonest statements ever uttered at a Presidential debate. From the Carnegie Foundation and thousands of other foundations that sprang from the private sector that have funded all sorts of education projects and basic research, to Apple and General Foods and thousands upon thousands of other private sector companies that have done the same thing, the evidence against President Obama's statement would be thicker than the ObamaCare law. Staggering that anybody could vote for this guy.

No, President Zero, the private sector doesn’t WASTE capital on destined-to-fail investments like Green Energy. If there’s money to be made, like let’s say with computers or that newfangled Internets, companies will pour R&D in.

This is jaw-dropping, staggeringly stupid beyond belief. Beyond the foundations and programs you named every single one of us taxpayers working in the private sector makes an ‘’investment in education’’ every time we pay local, state and federal taxes that in part go to school construction, teachers salaries etc.

Obama is full of deceit. An example of great American tradition is the contest between Samuel Langley and the Wright Brothers.

Langley a product of high class snot nose education (Boston Latin School and Harvard University) tried to pioneer in aviation. He got $70,000 grants from the government for his research. Meanwhile the Wright Brothers were working on their own dime. I always love the PBS broadcasts that show Langley's bold attempts to launch a plane off a catapult in the Potomac River and watch it crash and sink like a rock. Meanwhile, the Wright Brothers using good old fashion American pragmatism with no help from the government got to fly. If you were born in Kenya, you probably wouldn't know this history. For those unfamiliar with Langley, here is a link.

Dec 2, 2011 ... This in-kind gift supports important work in the energy field that WVU is ... 
Research and development at the university level is a critical component of
energy ... Halliburton’s repeated commitment to our research and teaching ..

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posted on 10/22/2012 11:52:53 PM PDT
by 21twelve
(So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)

Apparently I wasn’t really involved in a Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers program for high school students that taught and promoted the idea of students learning robotics. Apparently the companies that fronted this effort with hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single county’s program didn’t acutually do that. Maybe I didn’t personally award a trophy at that contest. Maybe I didn’t provide hands-on experience in troubleshooting electrical systems. Or, maybe the president is full of crap. Again.

Obama Said Private Sector Never Made Investments In Education And Basic Research

Obama's 'right'. Who again was the gubmint bureaucrat:

That invented the Steam Engine.

That flew a kite in a T-Storm and 'captured electricity'.

That invented Bifocal Glasses.

That took that electricity thingy and distributed it to peoples houses.

That invented the Air Brake for trains.

That decided to run train tracks all over the Western Plains with those Choo-choo machines on them, bringing civilization to 'The Wild West'.

That invented the Repeating Rifle. The Revolver. The Machine Gun.

That invented Air Conditioning.

That invented the Assembly Line and Mass Production (and Cheaper Prices).

That basically turned a bicycle shop into an Airplane Factory.

That invented modern 'Rocketry' (that Robert Goddard somebody iirc. /s)

And last, but not least; The gubmint bureaucrat who made the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean!!

As to education, one could tell when a town in the Old West became civilized when it built two things -- and all by themselves no less: A Church, and a School. And nobody from DC did one tiny thing to help. It was all done by We The People.

Oh ... wait ....??? I guess Obama is not right after all. (Gee. Who'd a saw that coming /s)

The private sector should withhold all contributions for one week, just to show what happens to all sorts of businesses and organizations.

If the Kenyan wins and manages to tax the rich this WILL happen but on a permanent basis. A normal person knows that when one expense (like taxes) goes up you reduce other expenses in order to stay within the budget. Rat morons just don't get it!

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posted on 10/23/2012 5:57:25 AM PDT
by New Jersey Realist
(America: home of the free because of the brave)

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